Nature
More than Sweet
From Poems New and Old (1920)
Nature
The noisy fire,
The drumming wind,
The creaking trees,
And all that hum
Of summer air
And all the long inquietude
Of breaking seas----
Sweet and delightful are
In loneliness.
But more than these
The quiet light
From the morn's sun
And night's astonished moon,
Falling gently upon breaking seas.
Such quietness
Another beauty is--
Ah, and those stars
So gravely still
More than light, than beauty pour
Upon the strangeness
Of the heart's breaking seas.
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MLA
Freeman, John. “More than Sweet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/freeman/135/.
Chicago
Freeman, John. “More than Sweet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/freeman/135/.
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